The famous American conservative televangelist Pat Robertson, who often takes extreme positions, has died at the age of 93, the Christian television channel he founded announced in a statement on Thursday June 8.
Pat Robertson, “television presenter, educator, humanitarian and former presidential candidate, died at his Virginia Beach residence early Thursday morning,” reported The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).
A popular television preacher, Robertson founded CBN in 1960, where he hosted a very conservative daily show, “The 700 Club,” which he said was watched by an average of one million Americans.
Fierce opponent of abortion
A former Republican presidential candidate in 1988, he also founded the Christian Coalition, an organization known for its fierce opposition to abortion and its fight for school prayer, which he had done in the years 1990 an essential political pressure group.
The Christian Coalition had nearly 4 million members in 1994, according to The New York Times, but had lost half of its membership by the 2000s, and much of its influence. Born in 1930 in Lexington, Virginia, Pat Robertson frequently aroused controversy with extremist remarks.
In particular, he claimed in 2002, a year after the September 11 attacks, that Muslims were worse than the Nazis and in 2005 called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whom the televangelist accused of having financed Osama bin Laden. .
